The International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP) in the October edition focuses on an IHDP review on mountain regions around the world, in particular, looking at adaption to climate change in difficult environments.
Summaries of scientific work describe findings in mountainous areas in Africa, Eurasia and the Americas. The projects reveal the prime importance of the role of the local population in these regions. For example, German researchers show social and economic impacts in the Carpathians; Mount Kenya forms a water tower in Africa, for an immense area. What will happen when the reserves of snow melts under the effect of climate warming? Swiss scientists attempt to respond to that question with local research. The thirteen other articles focus on similar issues.
This issue includes the following articles:
- Why Mountains Matter, Gregory Greenwood
- The Mountain Research Initiative: From Theory to Practice, Claudia Drexler
- The Chagga Homegardens on Kilimanjaro, Claudia Hemp, Andreas Hemp
- Dimensions of Global Change in African Mountains: The Example of Mount Kenya, Boniface P. Kiteme, Hanspeter Liniger, Benedikt Notter, Urs Wiesmann,Thomas Kohler
- Crop Yield Response to Climate Change in East Africa: Comparing Highlands and Lowlands, Philip Thornton, Peter Jones, Andrew Farrow, Gopal Alagarswamy,Jeffrey Andresen
- Forest Governance Challenges on Mount Cameroon, Emmanuel O. Nuesiri
Society, Desertification and Climate Change in the Argentinean Chilean Central Andes Region, Elena María Abraham and Ricardo Villalba
- Central Andean Foothill Farmers Facing Global Environmental Change, Elma Montaña
- Responding to the Collapse of Mountain Ecosystem Health and Natural Resource Management Institutions in Peru, Gabriela López Sotomayor
- Some Guidelines for Helping Natural Resources Adapt to Climate Change,
Jill S. Baron, Susan Herrod Julius, Jordan M. West, Linda A. Joyce, Geoffrey Blate, Charles H. Peterson, Margaret Palmer, Brian D.
Keller, Peter Kareiva, J. Michael Scott and Brad Griffith
- Climate Change Adaptation Strategies for Pastoral Communities of Mongolia’s Central Mountainous Region, Chuluun Togtokh
- Implications of Rangeland Enclosure Policy on the Tibetan Plateau, Grant Davidson, R.H. Behnke and C. Kerven
- Redeveloping Mountain Landscapes as Cultural Cradles of Biodiversity,
P.S. Ramakrishnan
- Post Socialist Land-Use and Land-Cover Change in the Carpathian Mountains, Patrick Hostert, Tobias Kuemmerle, Volker C. Radeloff, and Daniel Müller
- Strengthening Decision-Making Tools for Disaster Risk Reduction: An Example of an Integrative Approach from Northern Pakistan, Karen Sudmeier-Rieux, M. Jaboyedoff, A. Breguet, J. Dubois, P. Peduzzi,
R. Qureshi, R. Jaubert
